Josette Sheeran: Ending hunger now

http://www.ted.com Josette Sheeran, the head of the UN's World Food Program, talks about why, in a world with enough food for everyone, people still go hungry, still die of starvation, still use food as a weapon of war. Her vision: "Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together."

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[monkeyrecordsnz]

I'm constantly amazed at how some people just end up childishly insulting each other when leaving a comment on Youtube rather than say something insightful or relevant to the topic.

[pmak8]

she took his 'food cup'!!

[jinsi]

How do i start helping

[H1TMANactual]

@IHighLikePlane 1. Even if it were true, how do you distinguish between good inventor and bad one and who gets the resources?

2. LOL so 7 billion people gets to vote on how every single resource is used?

3. Must be. Then name that robot/machine that can wait tables and build bridges.

4. Nope. Higher demand means higher supply. More economic illiteracy.

Lmao a zeitard conspiracy nut talking about indoctrination. Ironic.

Btw what if I rape or kill someone in your society without laws?

[IHighLikePlane]

@H1TMANactual 1) wrong, most inventors and scientists create things out of personal fulfillment and to better humanity

2)There is no "central planner", everyone participates in a direct democracy, people are free to participate as they see fit

3)You must be ignorant of the state of technology

4)Having low supply and high demand equals more profit, thus starvation and poverty are inevitable

You're obviously too indoctrinated to listen to logic, so this is my last post. Have a nice life.

[H1TMANactual]

@IHighLikePlane 1. And why did engineers built it? It's called profit motive. That's what drives technology. That's why your iphone 4 is cheaper and better than iphone 1.

2. Nope they wouldn't be wage slaves but we would all be slaves to the central planner.

3. Machines/robots can't even walk up a flight of stairs let alone build bridges #FAIL

4. Is there more food and shelter than 100 years ago? Then price system favors abundance, central planning doesn't.

Try again.

[IHighLikePlane]

@H1TMANactual Engineers have already designed these facilities so we know they are possible. People will always be working. However, in an RBE they wouldn't be wage slaves to a corporation doing meaninless tasks that are a waste of their human potential. Machines can do a better job waiting tables and building bridges than people ever could anyway.

The price system favors scarcity, thus we will never see an abundance of anything (food, shelter, etc.) in this system. So poverty is inevitable.

[H1TMANactual]

@IHighLikePlane Yeah much rather have free for all than another failed centrally planned economy b/c some moron saw a bullshit yt video LOL

And hydro sky scrapers are possible and 7 bn can live without ever working again? Why? B/c some moron who never built shit in his life told you so in a yt video? Sure you gullible fuck.

And price and profit measures scarcity. And which economics system? Singapore, Hong Kong etc seems to be doing just fine. Like I said economic illiterate. Shut the fuck up.

[IHighLikePlane]

@H1TMANactual Lmao economic doctrine tard. Stop spouting your free for all religion and learn to critically think. You know some ideological pseudo economics so you close your mind to all other alternatives.

I agree hydro sky scrapers require man power and resources, but they don't require currency of any kind. There are many things we could do if we weren't suffocated by a self serving ideological corrupt unsustainable environment destroying war provoking poverty inducing "economic system".

[H1TMANactual]

@IHighLikePlane Lmao Zeitard. Get lost. Economic illiterates shouldn't comment about....you know economics. "Hydroponic sky scrapers" aren't going to pop out of thin air. They will require resources and man-power.

[purplefuzzythings]

You made me envision a future where everyone in these regions have starved to death, and condoms litter the ground and tumble in the wind.

Not actually what would happen. I'm not shooting you down, and you're right that just sending food isn't the answer. But, of course, just more condoms wouldn't help either. They need the means to produce their own food, they need no one else to take it from them, and they need education to compete with other economies and control their birth rates.